Monday, May 27, 2013

MY BRAVE HOMELAND - ROMANIA - I LOVE YOU !!!

World's biggest flag unfurled in Romania

Guinness World Records hails flag weighing five tons that took weeks to sew and used 44 miles of thread

An aerial picture shows the huge flag on the Clinceni airfield, south of Bucharest. Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/AP

A Romanian village has unfurled what is the largest flag ever made, according to Guinness World Records

It
took 200 people several hours to roll out the flag, which measured
about 349 x 227 metres (1,145 x 744.5ft) , about three times the size of
a football field, according to Jack Brockbank, an adjudicator for
Guinness World Records who measured the flag before pronouncing it the
biggest flag in the world.

Villagers carry the huge flag on the Clinceni airfield, south of Bucharest. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

”It gives me
great pleasure to recognize a new Guinness World Record title," he said
after measuring the flag. "Congratulations ROMANIA !”
He
said Romania's red, yellow and blue flag covers an area of about 79,290
sq metres (853,478 sq ft), beating Lebanon, which had held the previous
record.The five-ton flag was displayed in Clinceni, 22
miles (35km) south-east of Bucharest. Workers struggled to keep it
firmly planted on the ground because of windy conditions and had to use
small sandbags to weigh it down.Adrian Dragomir, manager
of the Flags Factory, which created the flag, says it took weeks to sew
and 44 miles (70km) of thread was needed.A military brass
band played as the Romanian prime minister, Victor Ponta, and other
ministers arrived in the village to inspect the flag.